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FRANKLIN A. FIELD, or EVERETT, AsSIefNoRA To HENRY o. MILLER, oF

CAMBRIDGE, AND ALLEN F. MILLER, OF WIN BURIAL- CHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

GASKET.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,456, dated March 4,1884.

Application lfiled. December 13, 1883. (No modell To all whom t mayconcern.:

Be it known j[hat I, FRANKLIN A. FIELD, of Everett, county of Middlesex,State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Gaskets, ofwhich the following description,-

in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts.

the employment of tacks or nails, which Awouldl be necessary to hold thewere omitted.

Figure 1, in side elevation, represents a cord if the grooves casketconstructed in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2 is a partialsection thereof.

The body A of the casket, which latter may be of any suitable or usualshape or size, is provided externally with, as herein shown,

two longitudinal grooves, b. The cloth cov! ering Gis wrapped about thebody part A and fastened as usual, and then the cords D, preferably fromthree-eighths to one-half of an inch in diameter, and preferably ofsilk, are drawn about the cloth-covered casket, as shown 'in thedrawings, opposite the said grooves, and the ends of the cord arefastened to the said body. The grooves b receive and retain the cordsand prevent them from moving vertically on the body of the casket, andavoid the driving of nails or tacks into the wood or other material ofwhich the casket is composed. The omission of tacks from the cordenables it to stand out more prominently and uniformly than were tacksused to retain the cords in place.

' I claim- A casket-body provided externally with one or morelongitudinal grooves, b, and a cloth or flexible covering applied to thesaid body, combined with cords applied outside the flexible covering anddrawn into the Said grooves, the said cords being retained bythe saidgrooves from vertical movement on the said body, all substantially asand forthe purposes described. g l In testimony whereof I have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANKLIN A. FIELD.

